Smart Card Application Development Using Java

In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, and as secure tokens for authentication or digital signature. Their small size and the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them the ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, and medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid development of smart card applications using Java and the OpenCard Framework. It gives you the basic information you need about smart cards and how they work. It shows in detail how to develop applications that use smart cards by guiding you through examples step by step. A smart card provided along with the book will help you to quickly get some first hands-on experience. Das Buch bietet erstmals einen Leitfaden zur Entwicklung von Smartcard-Anwendungen mit Java (JDK ab Version 1.1.6) und OCF 1.1.1 auf dem Computer, sowie zur Entwicklung von Java Applets, die direkt auf einer Karte (Java Card) ausgeführt werden. Der erste Teil führt konzise in Grundlagen, Technologie und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten von Smartcard ein. Im zweiten Teil werden Ziel, Konzept, Architektur und Komponenten des OpenCard Framework detailliert beschrieben. Der dritte Teil demonstriert anhand einfacher Beispiele Aufbau und Design komplexer Anwendungen für den Karten- und den Host-Teil. Mit der beiliegenden Multi Function Card lassen sich die beschriebenen Beispiele leicht ausführen und weiterentwickeln.

In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, and as secure tokens for authentication or digital signature. Their small size and the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them the ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, and medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid development of smart card applications using Java and the OpenCard Framework. It gives you the basic information you need about smart cards and how they work. It shows in detail how to develop applications that use smart cards by guiding you through examples step by step. A smart card provided along with the book will help you to quickly get some first hands-on experience.